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It would be possible to solve the spam problem once and for all with a crypto currency: if (Sender is whitelisted by receiver): All emails arrive in the inbox else: Sender has to send $1 for their email to arrive in the inbox The $1 will be returned if the receiver replies
It would be possible to solve the spam problem once and for all with a crypto currency: if (Sender is whitelisted by receiver): All emails arrive in the inbox else: Sender has to send $1 for their email to arrive in the inbox The $1 will be returned if the receiver replies
This caused me some headaches and I was thinking this could be the end and I have to use one of the big players. But I did not give up, invested time and it works now again!
I can't send mail to mit.edu addresses. It gets rejected with a message that says I should talk to Microsoft. I frequently end up in GMail's spam folders. No idea why. I see no more than one piece of 'spam' a week; everything else is caught by a combination of a 15 minute greylist, the zen spamhaus BL, and SpamAssassin evaluating things. There are a bunch of spammers who send from accounts with valid SPF and DKIM, by…
They are intended to let a domain owner tell other email providers what servers have the right to send email from that domain (and sign email).
I can send email all day from joboffers@google.com. But most email providers will check SPF and see that my VPS IP is not authorized by google.com to send email, and it will go to spam.
Those standards wouldn't keep me from registering example.com, setting up SPF correctly, and then spamming. There are other techniques to filter out that kind of behavior.
The sweet spot for having control over your email while simultaneously minimizing unforseen headaches is to simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want instead of self-hosting a server at home. Same philosophy for exposing a your personal blog of html files or content like mp4 videos. The sweet spot is to focus on buying a domain name you control. Then let Amazon S3, or C…
Yeah, I've been doing exactly this for over 20 years. The only problem I can recall is related to the fact that the hosting provider uses a single SSL cert for the machine that hosts my domain (and many others, presumably), so of course the cert doesn't match my domain name. It's pretty easy to work around, and I only have to deal with it every few years when they do a hardware upgrade, which sometimes means moving m…
Hosting an email server on a consumer IP does seem to a losing proposition, Hosting an email server on a cheap (reputable) cloud server and doing the basics (PTR records, SPF etc) still works well.
Hate the level of centralization, particularly since there’s still a shit ton of spam still around. Sorry for the rant.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/674558/55...
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I think it is different. With Piracy people want something (product/service/media). The quote from Gabe is about the fact that they are willing to pay for it, if it is convenient and affordable. Nobody wants spam or the things promoted in the spam. The companies want attention from the users. I think the better version is targeted ads on Facebook, etc. Maybe that’s the closest analogy to Gabe’s quote.
> Nobody wants spam or the things promoted in the spam. Lots of people want Viagra without having to see a doctor. There definitely is a market for it, and now there are companies that do provide it, I wonder if this will cause spam to shift to other products.